Anthropic Software Engineer interview experience

The assessment wasn’t a single prompt—it was broken into multiple stages, where each assignment depended on the previous one.

As the tasks progressed, the expectations rose in complexity, so the early parts weren’t enough on their own. I worked through it as far as I could, but I didn’t end up getting to the next step.

Even though the concept felt practical, the multi-stage dependency made it easy for one earlier gap to snowball later. I remember leaving the experience feeling like it tested end-to-end implementation more than isolated coding ability, but it was still tough to clear the